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Inertia

I’m working in the hospital this month, managing a team that consists of a resident, an intern, and a sub-intern (a 4th year medical student on a job audition). I do these in-hospital rotations two to three times per year.  I usually get pretty anxious beforehand, since the vastly different “rounding” schedule throws my normal [...]

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Push or Pull?

Chances are if you’ve never been admitted to a hospital, you know someone that has.  If that admission was unplanned, you likely waited a long time in the ER before you or your friend/loved one was transported up to the hospital floor. If hotels ran like hospitals, they’d run themselves out of business.  Imagine the desk [...]

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